[ebooktalk] SEEING THE UPSIDE
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 19:57:24 +0100
Today has been filled with frustration as I've grappled with the soviet style
bureaucracy which surrounds renewing my blue badge in Ealing. However, the
time that I've spent doing this has also enabled me to read an entire book.
It's one which has been mentioned on this list before, The comfort of Strangers
by Ian McKewan. It is not a book to be taken lightly if, like me you live with
high levels of anxiety. the threat of the indeterminate evil is very
unsettling and this is part of the achievement of the book so that the end
comes almost as a relief, and not just to the reader but to one of the
protagonists too. He's another author of whom I'm usually wary having had some
bad trips into his fiction, but this was gripping and helped me keep my temper
in check.
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